Do you really tink that Apple would be stupid enough to design, build and sell a product that someone else has the patents to without paying royalties? Maybe Apple is paying them royalties, and then again maybe Apple found out how to get around them. Maybe if you could list the patents and Apple's violations, your position would make more sense.
http://daringfireball.net/ has a good article covering this. Look for the Monday, August 16th article.
While it is well within Real's rights to reverse engineer something, this feels a lot like a struggling company trying to piggyback off of someone else's success. If Apple doesn't want to let Real use their software, then that's their choice. Whether it's the right choice or not, nobody will know for while yet.
You can also set the computer to use the old Windows 98/2000 window theme which helps speed things up wuite a bit. Personally I just left the Luna theme on because I don't really like either one that much. Adding as much RAM as you can will go a long ways towards speeding up XP.
I put XP on a PII 350 and it runs quite well. It actually improved performance in some cases, especially networking, and it is far more stable. With my brothers constantly beating on it, Win98 crashed with a BSOD at least once a day. I haven't seen one yet for XP. I did max out the RAM (384MB) in the computer though, which seems to help quite a bit. Since we did get a new computer recently, the PII has been passed on for my mom to use exclusively and it works just fine.
I think this illustrates much of the problem with women not wanting to have anything to do with IT or programming. I have talked to many women in engineering and other high tech industries that "get straight to the point." Often better than most of the men participating.
And if Microsoft got caught adding code to hinder compatibility with third party programs (I don't really know if they actually did this), everyone on/. would get up in arms. No double standard here. I think Mr. Carmack is a little more mature than that.
Part of the plan is to lower the crew requirements for the new destroyers and frigates as well as automating the guns even more. So you probably wouldn't have anyone outside at all while firing. I'm not sure how this will affect damage control if you only have a handful of people onboard though.
"Technically, refilling a SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) with new fuel could be done and comply with ther requirements. However, I would presume there is a limit to the number of times this can occur due to dynamic airframe stress fractures and heat-induced stresses in the SRB structure. Anyone know of such limits? How often are the SRBs for the Space Shuttle reused? Is the SRB's exhaust nozzle replaced or is it reused as well? Is it complex or is it an open tube?"
From all the stories and reports that I've read about the SRBs, a more appropriate term than re-used would be "salvaged." Between the stress of launch and coming in the ocean they basically get rebuilt after each launch, so it isn't just a case of refuel and you're ready to go.
IS this in the US? If so they get taxed something like 50% of whatever you win, so winning a $40,000 dollar car will cost you $20,000. I bet someone could correct me or clear this up.
Actually Boeing started development on it to compete with the Lockheed C-5 for a large transport aircraft. They didn't win and found that it could make a great long range airliner.
The problem isn't that it interferes with the aircraft, it's that it plays havoc with the cell network on the ground below. When you use your cell phone on the ground, it is only in range of 1 cell tower at a time, unless you are moving from one tower's area (or cell) to another's. When this happens, the towers and cell know to switch. In a plane you can easily be in range of several, and moving between them quite fast. If you have a plane load of cells trying to do this, it can easily overload a cell network. All modern aircraft are shielded against radiation from electronics pretty well. There may be very specific circumstances where they could interfere with the aircraft's systems, but it is very unlikely to occur.
I have an Abit NFS-7 v2 board (nForce2), with a 9800 Pro video card and Audigiy 2zs sound card and no trouble yet. I've been using the nvidia IDE drivers without trouble at all.
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Do you really tink that Apple would be stupid enough to design, build and sell a product that someone else has the patents to without paying royalties? Maybe Apple is paying them royalties, and then again maybe Apple found out how to get around them. Maybe if you could list the patents and Apple's violations, your position would make more sense.
http://daringfireball.net/ has a good article covering this. Look for the Monday, August 16th article.
While it is well within Real's rights to reverse engineer something, this feels a lot like a struggling company trying to piggyback off of someone else's success. If Apple doesn't want to let Real use their software, then that's their choice. Whether it's the right choice or not, nobody will know for while yet.
You can also set the computer to use the old Windows 98/2000 window theme which helps speed things up wuite a bit. Personally I just left the Luna theme on because I don't really like either one that much. Adding as much RAM as you can will go a long ways towards speeding up XP.
I put XP on a PII 350 and it runs quite well. It actually improved performance in some cases, especially networking, and it is far more stable. With my brothers constantly beating on it, Win98 crashed with a BSOD at least once a day. I haven't seen one yet for XP. I did max out the RAM (384MB) in the computer though, which seems to help quite a bit. Since we did get a new computer recently, the PII has been passed on for my mom to use exclusively and it works just fine.
I think this illustrates much of the problem with women not wanting to have anything to do with IT or programming. I have talked to many women in engineering and other high tech industries that "get straight to the point." Often better than most of the men participating.
And if Microsoft got caught adding code to hinder compatibility with third party programs (I don't really know if they actually did this), everyone on /. would get up in arms. No double standard here. I think Mr. Carmack is a little more mature than that.
Since the Airport Express can connect to stereo systems.
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" Goddamnit, didn't I tell you to read badastronomy.com?"
/. read an article or follow a link?
Since when does anyone on
Do they host the site, or does their ISP?
Part of the plan is to lower the crew requirements for the new destroyers and frigates as well as automating the guns even more. So you probably wouldn't have anyone outside at all while firing. I'm not sure how this will affect damage control if you only have a handful of people onboard though.
"..three loud bangs..."
Mojave, we have a problem...
I've found that just hitting reload once or twice fixes it too.
It does sound like this is just the start of a new product range:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=484
Far Cry isn't the only one. MS Flight Sim 9 will bring most computers to their knees faster than Clinton with an intern.
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"(If BeOS had had a WINE for MacOS emulator to bridge the app gap, it might have done better.)"
I thought it did. It was called SheepShaver or something like that. This still didn't solve the driver problems though.
"Technically, refilling a SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) with new fuel could be done and comply with ther requirements. However, I would presume there is a limit to the number of times this can occur due to dynamic airframe stress fractures and heat-induced stresses in the SRB structure. Anyone know of such limits? How often are the SRBs for the Space Shuttle reused? Is the SRB's exhaust nozzle replaced or is it reused as well? Is it complex or is it an open tube?"
From all the stories and reports that I've read about the SRBs, a more appropriate term than re-used would be "salvaged." Between the stress of launch and coming in the ocean they basically get rebuilt after each launch, so it isn't just a case of refuel and you're ready to go.
Since when has that affected Microsoft? They get front page coverage and far worse reviews...
Everybody I know out here knows who they are. I think all of their concerts here (Alberta) get sold out too.
IS this in the US? If so they get taxed something like 50% of whatever you win, so winning a $40,000 dollar car will cost you $20,000. I bet someone could correct me or clear this up.
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Ummm, you're using girlfriends as an analogy on /.?!?
Actually Boeing started development on it to compete with the Lockheed C-5 for a large transport aircraft. They didn't win and found that it could make a great long range airliner.
You can also be in range of more than one or two towers at a time as well. Either way, the cell networks have trouble with it.
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The problem isn't that it interferes with the aircraft, it's that it plays havoc with the cell network on the ground below. When you use your cell phone on the ground, it is only in range of 1 cell tower at a time, unless you are moving from one tower's area (or cell) to another's. When this happens, the towers and cell know to switch. In a plane you can easily be in range of several, and moving between them quite fast. If you have a plane load of cells trying to do this, it can easily overload a cell network. All modern aircraft are shielded against radiation from electronics pretty well. There may be very specific circumstances where they could interfere with the aircraft's systems, but it is very unlikely to occur.
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"the point is NOT that you fill up the extra space with huge heatsinks on graphics cards"
My Abit NFS-7 board has a gap between the AGP slot and the first PCI slot to allow room for cooling the video card.
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I have an Abit NFS-7 v2 board (nForce2), with a 9800 Pro video card and Audigiy 2zs sound card and no trouble yet. I've been using the nvidia IDE drivers without trouble at all.
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